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SUMMARY:Eight Girls in a Boat
DESCRIPTION:Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more 
 about upcoming screenings and events.\n\nFree admission. No advance 
 reservations. Ticketing is on a first come\, first served basis. Seats will 
 not be assigned.\n\nIntroduction by Archive Director May Hong HaDuong and 
 television writer-producer and author David Stenn.\n\nScreening 1 of 
 4\n\nHearst Metrotone News: “The Wellesley Crew!”\n\nYear: 
 1947\nCountry: U.S.\nLanguage: English\nRuntime: 1 min.\nDigital. 
 B&W.\n\nScreening 2 of 4\n\nHearst Metrotone News: “Wellesley Girls Crew 
 Race” (excerpt)\n\nYear: 1957\nCountry: U.S.\nRuntime: 30 sec.\nDigital. 
 B&W. Silent.\n\nScreening 3 of 4\n\nHearst Metrotone News: “Water Skiing 
 In Mountain Resorts\, Lake Arrowhead\, Calif.” (excerpt)\n\nYear: 
 1936\nCountry: U.S.\nLanguage: English\nRuntime: 1 min.\nDigital. 
 B&W.\n\nScreening 4 of 4\n\nEight Girls in a Boat\n\nYear: 1934\nCountry: 
 U.S.\nLanguage: English\nRuntime: 85 min.\nDigital. B&W.\n\nWorld Premiere 
 of New Restoration\n\nAt an all-girls school in Switzerland\, Christa Storm 
 (Dorothy Wilson) is a star pupil and stroke seat on the rowing team\, but 
 her clandestine affair with young chemist David Perrin (Douglass 
 Montgomery) from another college leads her into trouble when she discovers 
 she’s pregnant. As Christa’s attention in school slips\, she incurs the 
 discipline of the team’s steely coach\, Hannah (Kay Johnson)\, who 
 removes her from the boat and threatens expulsion. Worse\, Christa’s 
 businessman father (Walter Connelly) objects to marriage between Christa 
 and David over concerns that David’s studies doom him to a life of 
 poverty. How will Christa and her coming baby keep an even keel through all 
 this choppy water?\n\nThis pre-Code film was a remake of a 1932 German 
 original (Acht Mädels im Boot) and billed as “America’s daring reply 
 to Mädchen in Uniform (1931).” Paramount’s advertising played up the 
 salacious suggestion of a female-only school where men are forbidden. Most 
 of the cast members were selected through a nationwide beauty contest aimed 
 at filling out the ensemble with new faces to Hollywood\, including Jean 
 Rogers of Flash Gordon (1936). Silent film star Peggy-Jean “Baby Peggy” 
 Montgomery (also known as Diana Serra Cary)\, now a teenager\, appears as 
 one of the students.\n\nMostly filmed on location at Lake Arrowhead in the 
 San Bernardino Mountains\, Eight Girls in a Boat shines during its rowing 
 scenes as sunlight dapples on the water. The New York Times praised 
 director Richard Wallace’s “considerable delicacy and tact” around 
 the illicit motherhood theme and Dorothy Wilson’s “genuinely and shyly 
 touching” portrayal of “the girl’s loneliness\, her sense of 
 ostracism and shame.” Wilson\, known for being cast as the lead in The 
 Age of Consent (1932) while working as a secretary at RKO\, eventually 
 married Eight Girls screenwriter Lewis R. Foster and largely retired from 
 film roles just a few years later.—Brian Belak\n\nProduction: Charles R. 
 Rogers Productions\, Inc. Distribution: Paramount Pictures. Producer: 
 Charles R. Rogers. Director: Richard Wallace. Screenwriters: Helmut 
 Brandis\, Lewis R. Foster\, Casey Robinson. Cinematographer: Gilbert 
 Warrenton. With: Dorothy Wilson\, Douglass Montgomery\, Kay Johnson\, 
 Walter Connelly\, Peggy-Jean “Baby Peggy” Montgomery.\n\nRestored by 
 the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Packard Humanities Institute 
 from the 35mm original nitrate picture negative\, acetate composite fine 
 grain positive and nitrate print. Laboratory services by The PHI Stoa Film 
 Lab\, Audio Mechanics\, Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to the Library 
 of Congress\, NBCUniversal\, David Stenn.
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/16741823
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